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- This article is about the song. For the album by Bette Midler, see Memories of You (album).
"Memories of You" is a popular song with lyrics written by Andy Razaf and music composed by Eubie Blake and published in 1930.
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Song history
The song was introduced by singer Minto Cato in the Broadway show Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930. A 1930 version recorded by Louis Armstrong featuring Lionel Hampton is the first known use of the vibraphone in popular music.
A version of the song recorded by The Four Coins from the biopic The Benny Goodman Story reached #22 on the Billboard magazine chart in 1955. Robert Wyatt's version appears on his single "Shipbuilding", released in 1982, and was reissued on the CD Mid-Eighties (1993).
Doc Severinsen and the NBC Orchestra performed a moving, melancholy instrumental version on the final airing of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, May 22, 1992. The song played over a five-minute tribute montage showing brief silent clips of some of Carson's favorite guests - seen interacting with the host through the years.
Notable cover versions
- Louis Armstrong (1930)
- Duke Ellington (1930)
- Ethel Waters (1931)
- Lionel Hampton (1937)
- Glen Gray (1937)
- Anita O'Day (1942)
- Erroll Garner (1945)
- Billy Eckstine (1947)
- Art Tatum (1953)
- Thelonious Monk (1955)
- Judy Garland - Judy (1956)
- Ted Heath (1956)
- George Shearing (1956)
- Stan Kenton (1957)
- Count Basie (1958)
- Anita O'Day with Gene Krupa (1959)
- Frank Sinatra (1961)
- Ella Fitzgerald (1964)
- Robert Wyatt (1982)
- Billy Eckstine & Benny Carter with Bobby Tucker (1986)
- Mel Torme (1992)
- Bette Midler (2003) - also the title of her 2010 retrospective, Memories of You
References
See also
- List of 1930s jazz standards
External links
Categories:- 1930 songs
- Songs written by Andy Razaf
- Songs written by Eubie Blake
- Rosemary Clooney songs
- 1930s jazz standards
- Benny Goodman songs
- 1950s pop song stubs
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